"I cannot too much muse ... Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing-- Although they want the use of tongue--a kind Of excellent dumb discourse." * * * * * "They vanished strangely.--'_Tis_ no matter, since." * * * * * "Each putter out of five for one." We should perhaps read _on_ for 'of'; or, with Thirlby and Malone, transpose 'five' and 'one,' of which both Gifford and Dyce approved. Yet it may be that no change is necessary, for _of_ and _on_ are constantly used interchangeably, and _o_' stands for both. The 'of' of the text may, however, have been caused by the initial letter of the following word. * * * * * "I will stand to and feed," etc. Mason arranged thus:-- "I will stand to and feed, although my last. No matter, since I feel the best is past. Brother, my lord the duke, stand to and do as we." Mr. Dyce properly rejects this arrangement, but on the last line he observes "They cannot with any propriety be reduced to a single line." Was Mr. Dyce unaware of the existence of six-foot lines in these plays? The true reason for rejecting this arrangement is, that in this play Shakespeare does not employ couplets. * * * * * "Hath caused to belch you up, and on this island." The first folio has 'up you'; the necessary and obvious transposition was made in the fourth. Some editors, most unjustifiably, throw out 'you.' * * * * * "One dowle that's in my plume." For 'dowle' I read with confidence _down_, believing it to be a printer's error for _dowlne_, a mode of spelling _down_: "There lies a _dowlney_ feather, which stirs not. Did he suspire, that light and weightless _dowlne_ Perforce must move." 2 Hen. IV. iv. 2, _fol._ Singer refers to dictionaries, etc., of the 17th century for the use of _dowle_; but they all probably found it only in this place. ACT IV. SC. 1. "Have given you here a third of my own life." For 'third,' which might easily have been a printer's error for _thrid_, i.e. _thread_, editors in general follow Theobald in reading this last word. It is easy to conceive how Miranda might be regarded as a thread or integral portion of her father's life, but not how she could be a _third_ of it. * * * * * "Do not smile at me that I boast her of." Of course Shakespeare wrote 'of her.' The editors, without, I believe, an exception, have 'boast her _off_'--a phrase unknown to the poet--introduced by the editor of the 2nd folio, who had little or no idea of emendation by transposition. * * * * * "The strongest suggestion Our worser Genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust."